* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

In his essay " Chicanismo " in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures ( 2002 ), Jose Cuellar dates the transition from derisive to positive to the late 1950s, with a usage by young Mexican-American high school students.

Meanwhile, in the USA, cheerleading accounted for 65. 1 % of all major sports injuries to high school females, and to 66. 7 % of major sports injuries to college students from 1982 to 2007, with 22, 900 minors being admitted to hospital with cheerleading-related injuries in 2002.

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

The school's name was changed to the Maria L. Baldwin School on May 21, 2002, in honor of the African-American principal of the school who served from 1889 until 1922.

Mark Yarhouse and Warren Throckmorton, of the private Christian school Grove City College, in 2002 published " Ethical Issues in Attempts to Ban Reorientation Therapies ", which argues that conversion therapy should be available out of respect for a patient ’ s values system and because there is evidence that it can be effective.

In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U. S. 639 ( 2002 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that school vouchers could be used to pay for education in sectarian schools without violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

In 2002, a Kahanist group known as " Revenge of the Toddlers " claimed responsibility for a bombing attack at Tzur Baher, an East Jerusalem secondary school for Arab boys, that wounded seven.

The group also claimed credit for the 2003 bombing of a Palestinian school in Jaba that injured 20 and was thought to be linked to the 2002 Zil Elementary school bombing.

In addition to the full-time MBA, the school offers four Executive MBA programs: the NY-EMBA Friday / Saturday program, the EMBA-Global program ( launched in 2001 in conjunction with the London Business School ), the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program ( launched in 2002 in conjunction with the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley ), and the EMBA-Global Asia program ( launching in 2009 in conjunction with the London Business School and the University of Hong Kong Business School ).

As a result of its efforts to improve the region, the IDA has helped bring electricity to an additional 66 million Africans since 1997, helped build or restore 240, 000 kilometers of paved roads, and helped enroll an additional 15 million African children in school since 2002.

The Faculty of Divinity became a constituent school of the Faculty of Arts in 2002, while the Faculty of Law was changed in 1984 into the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies, and in 2005 became the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences.

In the final season of the show ( 2002 – 2003 ), things starts to come around for Buffy when Principal Robin Wood hires her as a school counselor for the newly-rebuilt Sunnydale High School and has repaired her relationships with Dawn and her friends.

In 2002, Ramallah was reoccupied by Israel in an IDF operation codenamed Operation Defensive Shield, which resulted in curfews, electricity cuts, school closures and disruptions of commercial life.

The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 offered federal aid to local school districts in assisting them to address the needs of children with limited English-speaking ability until it expired in 2002.

In a 2002 case brought by atheist Michael Newdow, whose daughter was being taught the Pledge in school, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the phrase " under God " an unconstitutional endorsement of monotheism when the Pledge was promoted in public school.

Citing the precedent of the 2002 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Karlton issued an Order stating that, upon proper motion, he would enjoin the school district defendants from continuing their practices of leading children in pledging allegiance to " one Nation under God ".

* 2001 – 2002 ( 4 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U. S .)

* 2002 – 2003 ( 14 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U. S .)

The Erfurt massacre was a school massacre that occurred on April 26, 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany.

* " 18 dead in German school shooting " BBC News article ( April 26, 2002 )

* " Eighteen killed in German school shooting " The Guardian article ( April 26, 2002 )

* " How teacher stopped the school slaughter " The Observer article ( April 28, 2002 )

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

* 2002: A street-driven Dodge Dakota pickup with a diesel engine built at Gale banks engineering hauls its own service trailer to the Bonneville Salt Flats and set an FIA land speed record as the world's fastest pickup truck with a one-way run of and a two-way average of.

The First Digital Cinema Network enabling digital delivery directly to the theaters was built by Digital Cinema Solutions in 2002.

The first customer took delivery of a red CC8S in 2002 at the Geneva Auto Show and four more cars were built that year.

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing its new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

As part of infrastructure improvements in 2002, the runway at Bamako was extended, and new airstrips were built in previously isolated areas of the west — Kayes, Mopti, and Sikasso.

Advocates address the first doubt by pointing out that the first macroscale autonomous machine replicator, made of Lego blocks, was built and operated experimentally in 2002.

She has since built a successful career, appearing in films from a wide range of genres, including the comedy Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 ), the thriller Gothika ( 2003 ), the Christmas movie Noel ( 2004 ), and the action adventure Sahara ( 2005 ).

The Cayenne, introduced in 2002, shares its entire chassis with Volkswagen Touareg and Audi Q7, which is built at the Volkswagen Group factory in Bratislava.

In a vote held in January 2002, a majority of islanders ( at home and abroad ) voted in favour for an airport to be built.

In 2002 a two-person version of Bourne's design was built for the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible by Mark Edwards, and successfully rowed under water at Dorney Lake, Eton.

" About 60 million transistors were built in 2002 ... for man, woman, and child on Earth.

From ITRI's first 3-inch wafer fabrication plant built in 1977 and the founding of UMC in 1980, the industry has developed into a world leader with 40 fabs in operation by 2002.

The earlier models of the Nissan Z were built at the Nissan Shatai plant in Hiratsuka until 2000, while the later models ( 350Z and 370Z ) are built at Oppama ( 2002 – 2004 ) and Tochigi ( 2004 – present ).

His successor, Rafael Benítez, built on this and led the club to a Liga title in 2002 and the winning a double with a league title and the UEFA Cup in 2004.

In 2002, a new multistorey complex was built ; it includes a cafe and a large lecture theatre.

From 19 January 2002 to November 2004, the opera company was transferred to the new Teatro degli Arcimboldi, built in the Pirelli-Bicocca industrial area 4. 5 miles from the city centre.

A large scale use of cold water fog is the Blur Building ( 2002 ), an exhibition pavilion built for Swiss Expo. 02 on Lake Neuchatel by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

The system was built at a cost of US $ 335M in 1988 and retired from service in 2002.

Settled among Prato della Valle, the Saint Anthony church and the Botanic Garden it was built in 1897 by the Jesuit fathers and kept alive until 2002.

The station building at Holt was originally built at Stalham in 1883 and was moved, brick by brick in 2002, to be re-erected in its current location.

Tourism has increased since the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and many hotels and restaurants were built for the events.

Newkirk told an animal rights conference in 2002 that PETA's goal remains animal liberation: " Reforms move a society very importantly from A to B, from B to C, from C to D. It's very hard to take a nation or a world that is built on seeing animals as nothing more than hamburgers, handbags, cheap burglar alarms, tools for research, and move them from A to Z ..."